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Forget the Tories, after reading this on Melanie P...

2007-07-04T13:00:00.000+00:00

Forget the Tories, after reading this on Melanie Phillips; Chamberlain’s heirs the Tories will betray us worse than Nu Labour have done.

What we need is a decent Independent party, with some of the BNP immigration policies! And of course, someone to pull us all OUT of Europe.

It's amazing how behind the times the Tory moderni...

2007-07-03T21:56:00.000+00:00

It's amazing how behind the times the Tory modernisers are. 90% of all Liberal arguments devolve down to them calling you - and everyone else - FICK. The Cameroonatics are so smart, they can't even come up with their own talking points.

Well that's because he is smarter than you are.......

2007-07-03T19:17:00.000+00:00

Well that's because he is smarter than you are....

9:14 AM

He most certainly is not...in fact he is of extraordinarily limited experience and intelligence

Well we DEFINITELY can't trust Labour so it seems ...

2007-07-03T16:30:00.000+00:00

Well we DEFINITELY can't trust Labour so it seems we are forced to consider putting our trust in the Tories. Of course you could vote for UKIP or the BNP if you have lost grip of your senses, in which case you will get more Labour. But then the BNP and UKIP both have tendencies to split into factions united only by shared hatreds.

So anonymous, you believe Cameron is playing the s...

2007-07-03T11:20:00.000+00:00

So anonymous, you believe Cameron is playing the same game as Blair and New Labour, yet you think that means we should trust him.

Some people learn nothing do they?

Quite the biggest load of bollocks about the Tory ...

2007-07-03T09:14:00.000+00:00

Quite the biggest load of bollocks about the Tory party I have ever read.

You have not the slightest idea of where Cameron will take the party anymore than I have. It is obvious that he is playing a game with the pro-Left BBC and the left-wing papers, in much the same way as NuLabour chatted up the Daily Mail and the Sun. Most Tories understand this. Is Cameron Green? Or does he just realise that by picking on certain trandy issues supported by those that have voted for a Labour party that has not delivered on Green issues he can pick up their votes? He knows we are forced to deliver anyway since our balance of trade figures won't permit us to continue to import ever more energy.

You don't like Cameron?

Well that's because he is smarter than you are....

How low would the turnout in a General Election ha...

2007-07-03T06:53:00.000+00:00

How low would the turnout in a General Election have to be before our political system loses it's legitimacy? 0%

Peter Kellner's wife, Lady Ashton...Leader of Lords

shows how far the disability and human rights hobby-horse can carry you. Then again with Baroness Uddin boasting a Diploma in Social Work from North London Polytechnic one can see why the old fogeys in The Lords with their Oxbridge educations had to give way to "modernity"

The Conservative Party is dead and selected an aristocrat to help put it to sleep. His wife's stepfather hails from a family made rich by slum landlordism in New York which gave The Cliveden Set its base and this seems to be how the Con Party will end....a mix between Cliveden parties and the stench of putrefaction.

The British economy was a soggy moribund case in 1978 revitalised by the annuity of oil revenues to boost living standards and credit.....as Harold Wilson said - whichever party was in power when North Sea Oil came on stream would be in power for a generation.....the loss of North Sea Oil and the need to import energy for heating and lighting is the weak link for Britain and EU both....and China may not want to share.

In 1973 we saw the physical rationing of oil by OPEC....today there is an assumption we can consume ad infinitum if we pay.....that is the generational switch, from being careful to husband a finite resource to acting as if it was an inexhaustible supply to feed ever bigger energies and ever more appliances.

The Tories talk green but do not propose to restore their 1997 plans to impose 17.5% VAT on energy.....yet consistency demands they should egage in such a stupid policy.

Steve Hilton has taken the Tories up a blind alley - but he is another of these figures of first-generation British who seem to dictate policy in our political parties nowadays....those whoe understanding of the nation is more than superficial have been cast aside in favour of advertising schmooze and blithe ignorance.

The Tories are dead and once that party fragments Labour can prepare to split too....PR in local government is the key to destroying the activist base and fracturing these political parties which have as Cameron admits over grammar schools, preached one thing while doing the opposite in power.

That is why Cameron's re-shuffle is so funny - unimportant - trivial - inconsequential. His party is simply pointless - he has no traction in the North and faces a fight in the South......it is a regional party not a national one, a Southern lifestyle party not a political party. It is over.

Interesting.

2007-07-02T23:24:00.000+00:00

Interesting.

How low would the turnout in a General Election ha...

2007-07-02T22:53:00.000+00:00

How low would the turnout in a General Election have to be before our political system loses it's legitimacy?